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To: niceguy767 who wrote (41613)	5/29/2001 10:36:01 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"Update: Stephan Schwolow, a spokesman for MSI Germany, informed CHIP Online that the problem can be identified by trying a warm start from DOS mode, or a new start from Windows: If the PC doesn't restart, the Northbridge chip may be the culprit." As you know, I have one of these infamous MSI boards (pro2a) with the VIA chipset. In order to get to the northbridge you have to remove the heatsink. That isnt easy. Meanwhile I've rebooted the thing from every DOS prompt a bunch of times. Each time it starts fine. This motherboard continues to amaze me. It has never crashed in 2 months. It's not like it doesn't have a lot of software on it either...heavy duty draw programs, a couple of burner programs, mp3 rippers and encoders, several downloaders for stocks and chart programs, Winamp with an DSP etc. Meanwhile it has a BIOs that's never been upgraded. 2.2 and it's up to 2.6 now. I installed the 4.29s but it never crashed before that. The thing is unreal. I have another MSI board based computer next to it w/751 chipset and it totally freezes in IE5 every once in a while.

To: niceguy767 who wrote (41613)	5/30/2001 12:32:37 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 275872

Re: "as Dell just might have their hands full come Monday with additional new product offerings!!!" Sure - Just like AMD was going to reach $150 at the end of last year. If I had a nickel for every prediction you made that turned out wrong, I could afford to buy ALL of Intel and Jerry's Limousine to boot.